# Lant Pritchett
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lant pritchett (born 1959) is an American development economist. He is currently the RISE Research Director at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
He was born in Utah in 1959 and raised in Boise, Idaho.
Ep 410: Shruti Rajagopalan Remembers the Angle of the Light
She's an economist, an institution-builder, an ecosystem-nurturer and one of our finest thinkers. Shruti Rajagopalan joins Amit Varma in episode 410 of The Seen and the Unseen to talk about her life & times -- and her remarkable work. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check ou…
Unpacking Development in the World
The Bird, the Elephant, and the Future of Aid
You can find out more about our work, seminars and publications at www.freiheit.org/iaf.
Sources mentioned in this episode:
Lant Pritchett: Development Happened. Did Aid Help?
Hans Rosling: Factfulness
Learn more about Lant Prichett's work on his…
Peak Human - How openness and institutions shape progress across time
A conversation with Johan Norberg
You can find out more about our work, seminars and publications at www.freiheit.org/iaf.
Resources mentioned in this episode:
Book // Johan Norberg: Peak Human
IAF podcast episode with Deirdre McCloskey
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409R_The case for economic growth as the path to better human wellbeing
Are you interested in how economic growth is connected to human wellbeing?
Debate of the article titled The case for economic growth as the path to better human wellbeing from 2024, by Lant Pritchett.
This is a great preparation to our next interview with Casey Handmer in episode 410 talking abou…
Growth Is Discovery, Not Design — Why Firms Build Economies Ft. Ajay Shah | Growth is Good | Ep 25
Ajay Shah is back! And this time, he's going granular.In this episode of Growth is Good, Rahul Ahluwalia and Ajay Shah break down why firms — not policies, not savings rates, not grand macroeconomic plans — are the true unit of economic growth. GDP is just the sum of value added by every firm in th…
Lant Pritchett on Why Foreign Aid Misses the Point
Yascha Mounk and Lant Pritchett discuss why development requires building state capability, not just charitable interventions.
Lant Pritchett is a development economist from Idaho. Having now thrice retired, he is currently a Visiting Professor at the London School of Economics in the School of Pu…
2020 Australasian AID Conference - Keynote panel: Debating RCTs and impact evaluation
In 2019 the Nobel prize for economics went to three economists who have promoted the use and importance of Randomised Control Trials (RCTs) in development economics and interventions. But how useful are RCTs in the real world of development assistance? And what more generally needs to be done to im…
S7 Ep29: What the $1-a-day global poverty line gets wrong
It's 1990. A young staff economist walks into a director's office at the World Bank and says the number he's about to publish is "crazy". The director tells him not to worry about it.
The number was the dollar-a-day poverty line. Lant Pritchett, now of LSE, was that economist. More than three de…
Ep 20: Has history un-ended? | Lant Pritchett on the end of history, and what follows the liberal idea
Lant Pritchett believes that the post-1990 promise—that every country could converge on becoming democratic, capable, and liberal—was always more fragile than its champions admitted.
But what does the end of history actually look like? Why have some developing countries rejected western liberal ide…
Ep 446: The Joyful Agency of Luis Miranda
After a successful career as a banker, he decided to devote himself to making his country better off. Luis Miranda joins Amit Varma in episode 446 of The Seen and the Unseen to discuss banking, India, education, healthcare, parenthood and the joy of working. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENU…
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